"Staff at Venezuela's Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC) could be seen assessing the damage to the facilities in Altos de Pipe, Miranda on Monday after it was hit during the US operation that captured now former president Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores. Footage shows broken windows, destroyed furniture, and debris scattered throughout the complex, both inside and outside the institute, following the missile strikes. "The real impacts of what the criminal Yankee bombing did in our country are multiple," said Pedro Silva, head of the Physics Centre, stressing that it is not only about material losses, but "the moral damage caused by the imperial aggression." "When one is Bolivarian, and one feels that the homeland has been attacked like this, it is like feeling that they have struck one's mother," he proclaimed. Sergio Cobarrubia, biologist and researcher at the IVIC, also condemned the 'very flagrant violation' by the United States, stating that the attack on research centres carries an implicit message. "Just as they bombed two warehouses with medicines for Venezuelans. [...] Symbolically, it is health, it is production, it is science. All of that feels violated and causes a lot of anger," he explained. According to Gabriela Jimenez, Venezuela's Minister for Science and Technology, five IVIC research centres were affected by the US attacks on January 3. The Mathematics Centre was destroyed, and the Physics, Chemistry, and Ecology Centres, as well as the Nuclear Technology Unit, were damaged. "